Thanks for everyone’s suggestions for cabbage recipes from the other week. Some great stuff, but now I’m sick of cabbage.
Does anyone have some great recipes that taste good and are loaded with vegetables?
Preferably ones where cabbage isn’t the main ingredient.
As a grown man who often has to trick myself and my wife into eating veggies, I often make “green mac and cheese”. Steam up a bunch of spinach, broccoli, whatever you like that goes with cheese, then puree and mix into the cheese sauce.
Pasta sauce is insanely easy to hide veg in. Just cook them all down in a pot and blend until smooth - they won’t ever know the contents!
you can bulk out your protein with lentils too.
My son declared he doesnt like cooked bell peppers when I made stir fry the other day. I always put bell peppers in my tomato sauce and he loves his spaghetti. I didn’t argue it, in case he decides to stop liking spaghetti, then I’d really be in trouble
You can also shred zucchini and add it into any baked good (cookies, cakes, ect), it just makes things moister along with the add nutrients
Puree (hot or smoothie) is a great way to introduce new flavours but it also breaks up the fibre making the fruit or veg much less healthy. If you are watching sugar intake this is very important. Sometimes disguising or hiding works. My kids liked cheese and salsa so many veggies had salsa or cheese or both on them initially. Eventually they ate the veggies on their own.
@Dave Mashed potatoes
Well, Harvard has this to say:
Aim for color and variety, and remember that potatoes don’t count as vegetables on the Healthy Eating Plate because of their negative impact on blood sugar.
I think the main rule of thumb is to just never, ever, ever boil/steam veggies and assume you end up with something anyone would want to eat. Roasting or frying them with liberal seasoning and/or flavorful oils ends up delish. You can also try frying carrots/broccoli/spinach or peas very quickly at a high heat and making a thick emulsified sauce from stock and butter that clings to it. Bear in mind cooking times, you don’t want to ruin the vegetables (or god forbid) peas by fully cooking them. As a result you might want to make the sauce first and then drop in more fragile veggies in later.
Smoothies. You can hide a lot of vegetables in a smoothie!
